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The first footage of the parents taken from inside a court has also been released.

The hearing from June 8, published by the Supreme Court, shows Mr Gard clutching the toy monkey as he sits next to Miss Yates. Their faces show the strain they are enduring as they watch lawyers arguing about their son.

In April, at an emotional hearing at the High Court to decide Charlie’s fate, Mr Gard, 33, hurled his son’s cuddly toy on to a bench in exasperation.

Chris Gard clutches one of his son's toy monkeys as he listens to Great Ormond Street's QC Katie Gollop

Undated family handout file photo of Chris Gard and Connie Yates with their son Charlie Gard

The same month, clutching the monkey, he told Mr Justice Francis that his son ‘deserves this chance’ to go to the US.

Mr Gard said: ‘We truly believe these medicines work. If there was no improvement, we would let him go... please give him the chance.’ But six days later, a judge ruled their son must ‘die with dignity’ as soon as possible.

Miss Yates, 31, had previously described the moment she and her partner went to Charlie in hospital after that ruling.

She said: ‘Chris took the little stuffed monkey he carried into court every day – so we always had a little part of Charlie with us – out of his pocket and sat it next to Charlie’s other monkey. That was the point Chris and I clung together and truly broke down.’